Data Journalism: GIJN’s Global Guide to Resources

ByKate Willson |May 14, 2013

As our governments and businesses become increasingly flush with information, more and bigger data are becoming available from across the globe. Increasingly, investigative reporters need to know how to obtain, clean, and analyze “structured information” in this digital world. Otherwise, they and the news organizations they work for will miss some of the most important stories of our time. Even in relatively closed societies, journalists can now work their way from the outside in, using international data sets to reveal what’s happening in their home countries.

Here is a list of resources to get you started, but we want to keep updating our community with the best resources available. Do you know of a great data tutorial we haven’t listed, perhaps in a language other than English? Help us keep this resource guide comprehensive by sending your favorite resource to: kate.willson (at) gijn (dot) org.

Ghana Databootcamp trains participants in Ghana on how to locate, obtain and analyze public data on the extractive industries.

Kate Willson is news adviser in the Student Media Department at Oregon State University, Corvalis, and a consultant to the Global Investigative Journalism Network. She served as a senior reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and has received more than 20 awards for her investigative and crime reporting.